Chapter 632 - 175: Monstrous Might, Breaking All Arts with Sheer Power

Chapter 632: Chapter 175: Monstrous Might, Breaking All Arts with Sheer Power

The scythe’s blade was wreathed in black qi, conjuring countless wailing Ghost Shadows. It let out a shriek that could tear everything apart, stirring the very heavens with its utterly terrifying momentum!

He swung the scythe down ruthlessly at Chu Fan, who stood at the center of the hurricane!

This scythe strike concentrated most of the Ghost Bone Elder’s remaining power.

Although it couldn’t compare to Princess Zhaohua’s stunning sword strike, its might was still unparalleled, as if it would cleave the very earth in two!

BOOM!

The hurricane was split down the middle by the terrifying Sword Qi. The last of the green flames rolled to the sides, revealing a vacuum in the center!

Under the shocked, constricted pupils of Tang Yu and Mo Yunzi, and the expectant, cruel gaze of the Ghost Bone Elder...

...the enormous black scythe, which seemed capable of reaping souls, landed squarely on top of Chu Fan’s head!

CLANG—!!!

A colossal clang, like the tolling of a great bell, threatened to shatter eardrums and made the very forest tremble!

The expected, bloody scene of Chu Fan being cleaved in two did not occur.

Instead...

BANG!!!

The moment the astonishingly powerful, enormous black scythe made contact with Chu Fan’s head, it was like an egg striking stone.

Starting from its sharp edge, the blade shattered inch by inch, finally exploding into countless fragments that scattered in all directions!

The ground around Chu Fan looked as if it had been struck by a giant hammer, sending sand and stone flying and kicking up a huge cloud of dust!

And yet, Chu Fan still stood in his original spot, his figure as immovable as a mountain, not having budged an inch!

He slowly raised his head, his gaze as calm and still as stagnant water. He stared coldly at the dumbfounded Ghost Bone Elder, whose face was a mask of utter disbelief.

It was the look one gives a dead man.

The savage sneer on the Ghost Bone Elder’s face froze. His mind went blank, and he felt as if he had plunged into a nightmare from which he would never awaken.

’What kind of head is that?’

’It’s even harder than an Ancient Treasure!’

Before he could recover from his overwhelming sense of absurdity and terror—

WHOOSH!

Chu Fan’s figure blurred and vanished from sight.

The next instant, a large hand shimmering with golden light and backed by immense power reached out from behind him, clamping down on the crown of his head!

"Ah!"

The cold touch, the shadow of death, and a power too great to resist washed over him, causing the Ghost Bone Elder to let out a bloodcurdling scream.

In this moment of crisis, a poison-coated, eerie blue dagger slid from his sleeve. With a backhand strike, he stabbed viciously at Chu Fan’s heart!

CLINK!

The sharp, ear-piercing sound of striking metal rang out!

That poisoned dagger, clearly an extraordinary weapon, felt as if it had struck Ten Thousand Years Profound Iron.

Not only did it fail to penetrate in the slightest, but it was sent flying by a massive Rebound force, landing on the ground with a clatter!

"No... spare me..."

The Ghost Bone Elder completely broke down, trying to beg for his life.

But the five fingers Chu Fan had clamped on his skull were already tightening!

CRACK!

The sound of cracking bone was deafening.

The Ghost Bone Elder’s skull was crushed like a watermelon.

It instantly deformed and burst!

Yet no blood or brains splattered out. Only a cloud of ink-black fog with a ferocious visage shot out from the shattered skull like a startled rabbit, attempting to flee!

This was the core Soul Division he had hidden within this avatar!

But the moment this wisp of a Soul Division escaped—

BUZZ!

An ancient, five-colored cauldron appeared out of thin air. It spun around, instantly growing to ten feet in size. With its mouth facing downward, it spewed a five-colored radiance like a Heaven and Earth Net, enveloping both the black fog and Chu Fan below!

The next instant, the five-colored light flashed.

Chu Fan and the Ghost Bone Elder’s remnant soul vanished, both sucked into the space within the Five Elements Cauldron.

The space inside the Five Elements Cauldron was a small world unto itself.

The Ghost Bone Elder’s pitch-black remnant soul darted left and right, frantically crashing against invisible barriers and letting out terrifying soul-shrieks in a desperate attempt to escape.

"Chu Fan! Let me out!"

"If you dare destroy my Soul Division, I swear I’ll make you suffer the agony of Soul Refining and ensure you are damned for all eternity!"

The Ghost Bone Elder’s remnant soul shrieked his venomous threats hysterically.

But Chu Fan remained silent and indifferent, watching it as one might watch a struggling ant.

Then, with a mere thought, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner appeared silently within the cauldron’s world.

The moment the banner materialized, a monstrous wave of Evil Qi—many times purer and more malevolent than the Ghost Bone Elder’s—instantly swept through the entire space within the Five Elements Cauldron!

Though there was no wind, the surface of the banner began to flutter loudly.

Countless shrill cries and mournful howls emanated from it, like ten thousand Resentful Souls wailing in the deepest hell. The sound was enough to make one’s scalp tingle and their very Divine Soul tremble!

After having devoured and completed the Refinement of the Zhang Family Ancestor’s Soul Division, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner’s power was far greater than before. The Evil Qi within it was so dense it was almost tangible, faintly forming a black vortex that emitted a terrifying suction force, capable of devouring everything.

If the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was a starving wolf before it devoured the Zhang Family Ancestor’s Soul Division...

...then now, it had become a calamitous, world-shaking dragon!

"No! This is... the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?! NO—!!"

The Ghost Bone Elder’s remnant soul saw the banner clearly, felt a primal terror shudder through its very being, and let out a scream of utter despair!

On the surface of the banner, he could vaguely make out twisted, pained faces writhing and struggling.

The sight plunged him into an icy abyss of horror!

"Chu Fan! You can’t do this!"

"I know of an ancient ruin! I have countless secrets to tell you! I..."

The remnant soul shrieked in terror, trying desperately to retreat.

But under the terrifying pull of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, it was like a candle flame in a gale, utterly powerless to resist!

"Absorb."

Chu Fan’s thoughts were ice-cold, without a ripple of emotion.

As this single word left his lips, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner whipped out!

A condensed beam of black light shot out like a whip of death, sweeping across the space!

"AH—!"

The bloodcurdling scream was cut short.

The black Divine Soul was torn apart and stretched out by the black light, then, like a wisp of smoke, was forcibly sucked into the bottomless vortex at the center of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner!

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner trembled violently. Black mist roiled across its surface, and its Evil Qi grew a fraction denser.

Faintly, among the countless wailing Resentful Souls, a new face filled with terror and agony appeared, doomed to sink for eternity in endless darkness and torment.